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OMG! Bush vetoed something!

Behold, while all you """scientists""" are trying to use experimentation to figure out the true nature of quantum mechanics, this guy has figured everything out himself without your pesky "scientific method"! http://www.geocities.com/quantum_reality2003/instantaneous_communication.htm

That's been the long-term trend: an growing and increasingly more affluent middle class with a rising standard of living.

He's a PhD materials engineer from MIT. You think he's unqualified to give an opinion on this? He's infinitely more qualified than anyone you've trotted out so far. "no drag"? Uhh, the building certainly fell a bit slower than g (in a vacuum). Since you're too lazy to look it up yourself, here's the explanation from the FEMA report on WTC1 & WTC2 (this particular excerpt relates specifically to WTC1) You're trying to interpret the video here yourself. The columns surrounding the impact became progressively loaded with pressure as the fire burned, weaking the columns and causing them to bow downwards under the weight. When the towers did collapse, all that material was ejected from the building as the available open space was crushed by the weight of the material above. Of course, they're part of the conspiracy! It makes perfect sense. Along with the DC Metro police. And the NYPD. And the FDNY. You were right about that, so you must be right about this. Flawless specious reasoning! I hate Bush. I voted against him... twice. I've been a vocal opponent of the Iraq war since before it started. None of that has anything to do with 9/11. It's just a horrible, pathetic red herring. It's one thing for a president to lead us into a stupid, costly war which has taken the lives of thousands of American soliders. That doesn't say anything good about that president, but it isn't the first time this has happened either. What you're incinuating here is not only completely unsubstantiated, it would have to be the act of a vicious, bloodthirsty diabolical genius. The scale of this operation would surpass millions of involved parties. And yet NOBODY HAS BLOWN THE WHISTLE. Yet... we've had leaks and whistleblowers on relatively small (i.e. a few hundred people) NSA operations. How is it Bush has managed to prevent anyone coming forward on the alleged 9/11 conspiracy?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/collapse.html How about you actually read the FEMA report (complete with photos) rather than trying to judge what happened for yourself from some grainy video on the Internet? Here it is again: http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch5.pdf I'm sorry, I just can't respond to the rest of your post. People like you make me furious. Eventually I'm going to have to Podcast my rage in an enormous tirade against bullshit conspiracy theories. But I'll leave you with this: FOR THE LOVE OF GOD LOOK AT THE ACTUAL EVIDENCE RATHER THAN JUST CONSPIRACY THEORIST WEB SITES

I used to wear sandals all the time to the place I used to work. My boss told me that about 10 years ago, someone got bitten by a brown recluse and had to go to the hospital, and almost lost his finger. Then one time, I'm in the bathroom sitting on the toilet, and up crawls a little brown recluse friend, fiddleback and all, inches from my toe. Fortunately, my first instinct was smashy smashy.

Uhhh... http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13884768/ So, uhh, this has eerie undertones of WW3... Bush wants us to declare war on the Middle East?

You realize thermite is just a combination of aluminum and iron... aluminum skinned plane... steel (i.e. iron) frame building? HMMM... I'm not qualified to determine what's in that video upon solely a visual inspection, but there's certainly explanations for the presence of the component ingredients of thermite in that reaction, regardless of whether a "thermite"-like substance actually formed there or not. Like, say, an entire skyscraper full of highly flammable petroleum-based office products? WTC1 and 2 "zippered" open as the weight from the structurally weakend floors pressed down on the floors below. This haphazardly showered debris all over the surrounding region. There was no energy to direct the majorty of the mass of the tower in any direction than it would naturally fall due to gravity, DOWN, however the debris covered a substantially larger region. WTC7 collapsed asymmetrically. There's a kink in the roofline towards the east side, where an oil fire had weakened the structure. I just went to New York and took several pictures of the WTC site. There was one building between WTC1 and WTC7, WTC6, which was also condemned and demolished following the collapse of WTC1. WTC6 was 8 floors. WTC7 was 47. WTC7 collapsed due to a prolonged fire which damaged the structure. WTC7 had been expanded, with several floors and additional floorspace added by tacking onto its existing steel structure. This made for a building which is weaker than you'd expect a skyscraper to typically be. WTC7's structural damage occured due to a prolonged fire. There's something you're really not getting here. As I walked down the streets of New York, I walked past fire department after fire department. On the walls of each one were plaques commemorating the firefighters at that department who died at 9/11. These firefighters weren't just in the business district. They were from SoHo. From Greenwich Village. They were from boroughs all over southern Manhattan. Thousands of firefighters were trapped or dead following the collapse of WTC1 and WTC2. They didn't have water, either. The collapse of WTC1 and 2, which rained flaming debris all over the surrounding area, set WTC7 on fire. It ignited a fuel supply for a backup generator in the building. That fuel supply fed a fire which lasted hours. Meanwhile thousands of firefighters remained trapped below the rubble of the collapsed towers. WTC7 collapsed due to a prolonged oil fire. Had half of FDNY not been trapped due to the collapse of two of the world's tallest buildings, and had they had water (or foam, even more scarce) available to fight the fire, then they certainly could've managed to put it out before the building collapsed. But they didn't. So Larry Silverstein told them to pull firefighters from the building (which is specifically what he states he meant in the interview. He, a wealthy landowner, was not tossing around demolition expert slang) Structural failure occured. One mechanical penthouse collapsed. 5 seconds later, another mechanical penthouse collapsed. One second later, the entire building collapsed. Having the roof cave in, then count it off, a second at a time: 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... (second mechanical penthouse collapses) *collapse* Is that how structural demolitions normally take place? No. Structural demolitions do not first cause the roof to collapse, then 5 seconds later collapse the rest of the building. 9/11 is something that's only gotten more personal to me after visiting New York. I really hate it when people try to throw these contrived arguments against the mountains of evidence collected by the official report: http://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/fema403_ch5.pdf Is his opinion on the WTC collapse peer-reviewed? Let's see what BYU has to say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones Oh! Appeal to authority, sorry. He said they decided to "pull it" (WTC7). He released a statement saying: This meant to pull the firefighters out. Why is a wealthy landowner using demolition expert slang when issuing a public interview? So... during this month you allege they were planting explosives: Why didn't anyone notice? Why hasn't anyone come forward? Did people just go about their normal jobs as demolition experts ripped up the walls to plant explosives on structural supports? Why did the roof collapse 6 seconds before the rest of the building? Can you provide any source on that which isn't a conspiracy theorist web site? This is something repeated over and over and over again in conspiracy theorist circles without anyone ever bothering to check if it's actually true. Have you ever actually looked at a picture of the debris field? You call that "symmetrical"? They collapsed due to fire, not structural failure following the impact. One physicist, not peer reviewed, vs. thousands of physicists and structural engineers, peer reviewed, and OBVIOUSLY PART OF THE CONSPIRACY, along with all the dead FDNY firefighters, the passengers of Flight 93 whose bodies were recovered from the Pentagon site, their families, and all of the NYPD and DC law enforcement who handled the situation. Seriously, do you realize what a ghoul you are to believe and propagate this stuff? What an incredible disservice you are doing to these people's memory, and their families?

Uhoh... http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/printer_1182138.php But Iran would never stoop so low... right? Looking for a pretext to launch military attacks...

I'm going to go with yes. What's the advantage to hiding? Depriving yourself of potential trade and resources?

Why not to perform a circumcision with a Gomco clamp and electrocautery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

I can only assume this question is targeted at Americans. I predict: The Republicans wouldn't dare try to instate the draft before the fall election The Republicans will still lose sorely in the fall election The Democrats would much rather end the war than reinstate the draft So, the conclusion is no.

He confessed to selling nuclear secrets to North Korea and Iran (in addition to actual hardware for centrifuges) He's currently under "house arrest" in Pakistan but Musharraf effectively pardoned him, as he's considered a national hero for giving them the bomb. He's never been interrogated for his activities, or received any kind of punishment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQ_Khan He's confessed to as much

Space elevator, duh! Make 60 mile long defect free quantum nanotubes!

This is a recently released (as of one month ago) Life simulator that supports constructing things in units. It's by far the nicest one I've ever seen, and seems to have excellent performance compared to some other simulators. Sorry. Here, check up this eater for 2c5 spaceships that I came up with by accident. It's probably known already. It's bundled with a 2c5 spaceship gun which will eventually destory itself, since this eater moves with time. 2c5-gun-and-eater.zip

http://golly.sf.net

They're both quite exciting fields. I think there's a way bigger future for nanotech than aerospace, but aerospace is moving into civillian space travel, and I think for the immediate future it will be practically applicable sooner than nanotech.

And here are some people talking about the universe as a cellular automaton idea: http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/spr/2002-12/msg0046458.html

Here's a more thorough description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variables

Pakistan is harboring the former head of the international nuclear black market, having pardoned him of all crimes. He's the one who sold centrifuge technology to North Korea and Iran.

Well, this certainly threw me for a loop, and the more I thought about it, the more I began to wonder about questions like "Isn't quantum indeterminacy necessary to expain the non-uniformity of the Big Bang?" and so forth. From a strong deterministic view, you are left to wonder "What is the cause of the initial non-uniformity?" I always loved cellular automata as an explanation for this, particularly the non-repeating Rule 110 and have always wondered if they could serve as an explanation for quantum indeterminacy (being a cellular automaton) Wikipedia had this to day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_Theorem

I'm going to go ahead and conceed this all to you because, when it comes right down to it, I don't know what I'm talking about.

Consciousness models reality. This model is very often inaccurate. This doesn't say anything about the possibility of multiple futures, but it does provide for the ability of consciousness to predict multiple possible futures.

The only television I watch now is the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, along with the occasional episode of Countdown. Arrested Development was awesome, although its most distinguishing characteristic, its cast, may have been the reason the show got cancelled: it never played to the Fox demographic, and cost a fortune to produce. It really needed to be on a network like HBO or Showtime.